DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 26 MICROSOFT 🔥: - Biggest Copilot update yet: Home (Chat + Cowork), Code, Autopilot, and Office embedded in the app. - Autopilot is the proactive long-running enterprise agent, a rebranded Scout. Code builds tenant-hosted apps on GitHub Copilot tech, with a Managed Copilot Runtime. - Rolling out through Frontier. Cowork, Code, and Autopilot are usage-billed. Today surfaces priority M365 items without a prompt. OPENAI 🔥: - Codex outage is over. Paid usage limits reset across Codex and ChatGPT Work. - ChatGPT desktop got a new sidebar, split from chat history, plus a broader UI pass. - Research agents sent training and eval data to third parties. 53 user-uploaded images hit unlisted image hosts. Review will take months. ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Plugin portal is live: submit a single MCP connector or a plugin bundle, track review, and see usage. MCP usage across Claude is up 110x this year. - Claude solved a nine-loop scattering-amplitude problem unsupervised over days, for a few thousand dollars. Dixon verified it. - Claude Code layout for Desktop is in development: new model selector and an expandable usage-limits section. GOOGLE 🔥: - Gemini Notebook Interactive Learning Overviews are open to all users. - Live Chat is on the Notebook mobile app: hands-free voice across about 100 languages. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing. ** This daily brief also arrives in the daily email format; subscribe on the blog.

MICROSOFT 🔥: A new Copilot app with Home, Code and Copilot modes has been introduced! > “Today we’re introducing the new Copilot to connect the tools people rely on with the next generation of capabilities they’ll need to build, customize and scale AI across work.” > Home contains Chat and Cowork options for day-to-day work. Office Copilot is included. > Code is powered by the same underlying tech as GitHub Copilot. A new Microsoft Managed Copilot Runtime for code execution has been added too. > Autopilot is a rebranded Scout Agent, Microsoft’s proactive AI assistant. * “It’s rolling out now through the Frontier program” Frontier testing time 👀

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 25 OPENAI 🔥: - Upcoming ChatGPT Pro Max is $500/mo ($600 with VAT). Copy so far only adds Fastest Work and Codex; limits may still rise. - Likely Cerebras-backed for the Ultra Fast path. DevDay is Sept 29. GOOGLE 🔥: - Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is GA in Gemini Enterprise. Lip-sync video agents, 97 languages, async tool calls mid-conversation. - Project Suncatcher flies a TPU prototype on SpaceX Transporter-18 with Planet, testing whether Google chips hold up in orbit. ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Resumed charging for safeguard blocks that fire before Claude replies: biology, distillation attacks, and frontier LLM work. - 99.7% of Claude Code, and Cowork accounts did not hit the new billable blocks. Classifiers tuned under 0.1% false positives. PERPLEXITY 🔥: - Fast Search is live in the Search API on Photon, a new Rust retrieval stack. 95% of results land in 230 ms or less. - 68% lower cost per agent task vs the default preset. Photon p99 dropped from ~800 ms to ~65 ms. - Portable Computer is in the Windows app for Consumer and Enterprise Pro and Max. Local harness; cloud model only with permission. SPACEXAI 🔥: - Elon: Colossus 1 is 150k H100, 50k H200, and 30k GB200. Colossus 2 is 110k GB200 and 440k GB300. - Another 220k GB300 next week, 220k in November, and maybe 220k more by late December. MICROSOFT 🔥: - Foundry adds model-agnostic voice agents on the same enterprise systems, tools, and controls stack. META 🔥: - Muse Code usage limits reset for Connect. Model API and Muse Code hit Oracle Marketplace. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing. ** This daily brief also arrives in the daily email format; subscribe on the blog.

OPENAI 🔥: The upcoming ChatGPT Pro Max plan will cost $500. So far, this will be one of the most expensive AI subscriptions available on the market. I hope "it will be worth the wait" 👀

OPENAI 🔥: A new ChatGPT Pro Max plan has been spotted in development! > OpenAI has been exploring ways to enable users to work with ChatGPT on long-running tasks for quite a while. > With OpenAI DevDay coming next week, we'll likely hear more about it already very soon. What's your bet? $2000 tier? 👀

Hermes desktop users now can watch bot’s screens while they work and take the control over when needed. “Watching how someone else works is one of the most joyful states for a human being” I need to teach them “testing” 👀

Anthropic will resume charging for rejected requests in order to protect from distillation attacks. This applies to requests related to biology, distillation attacks and LLM development.

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 24 META 🔥: - Meta VR Glasses: first VR in glasses, not a headset. AI-native OS, Muse avatar, eye + hand + voice control. - Muse now has voice and realtime video, and is coming to glasses for hands-free use all day. - Muse Charm, a keychain pin for talking to Muse, ships in December. - Meta Glasses get FDA-cleared hearing-aid mode. Private processing means Meta cannot see some on-device AI. OPENAI 🔥: - ChatGPT Voice now runs plugins (email, calendar, Slack) and GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna. - Voice is live in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile. Global rollout in the latest app. GOOGLE 🔥: - Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS are live in AI Studio and the Gemini API. - Custom voices across 100+ languages, or pick from 2,000+ stock voices. Flash hits Gemini Notebook; Flash-Lite hits Google Vids. - Gemini app is rolling out new MCP connections: Linear, Airtable, Webflow, Monday, PandaDoc, and Wispr Flow. - Koray says Gemini 4 is in early post-training and hopes for an early drop well before year-end. ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Claude Marketplace is live: Slack and Notion connectors, agents from Cursor and CrowdStrike, partners like Accenture. - Cloud sessions leave research preview. One-time credits: $100 Pro, $250 Max. Claim by Oct 7. - Projects in Claude Code can now run threads locally. CURSOR 🔥: - Rollouts watch deploys on Teams and Enterprise. Security Reviewer now averages 3.8 min. - Token costs down 7% with no drop in agent quality. ALIBABA 🔥: - Qwen Intelligence ships three mobile agents. Mobile-Use hits 90% end-to-end success on real-device benches. - Qwen-Audio-3.1 is out. TTS ~70% off, Realtime ~85% off, ASR up to 95% off. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing. ** This daily brief also arrives in the daily email format; subscribe on the blog.

BREAKING 🔥: Meta unvealed Muse Charm, a new AI pin hardware device to allow users to communicate with their Muse agents from anywhere. Shipping will start in December - will we get Muse globally by then too?

BREAKING 🔥: Meta announced Meta VR Glasses with AI native OS and integration with Muse AI assistant! Users can operate their Immersive VR experience via a combination of eye movements, hand gestures and voice to control. A VR Muse avatar is there too! 👀

ChatGPT Voice mode is now supporting Plugins and can be used in ChatGPT Work! Besides that, underlying tasks are now powered by GPT 6 model family. This means that you can finally do a real work without a need to use Remote session via a desktop app. A huge enablement! 🔥

BREAKING 🔥: Free, Prototype, and Accelerate plans are coming to the OpenAI Platform to allow users to build and host their own AI apps. > Accelerate - "Starting at $50", "Access all of our latest models", "Higher usage & rate limits to power larger, production apps", "Accelerate building with the API in Codex and Playgrounds" > These plans are likely to be announced during OpenAI DevDay, which would mean OpenAI would tap into the Vercel/Lovable space (though this is still speculation). > Sam Altman recently shared: "And then we want you all to come up with great ideas and build them and to get to be happy users. The best ideas will come from you all.", which correlates very well with this assumption. Accelerate anon 👀

Almanac Health has launched an AI workspace where physicians can hand off clinical and medical research tasks to AI and return when the results are in. > It can explore medical research, run clinical calculators, find relevant clinical trials, and take notes during patient visits. > Almanac is able to request clarification and ask for permission before taking an action. > Physicians can connect existing tools, including EHRs, and organize conversations by patient.